A Sampling of Clips for February 23^th, 2009

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Laser Therapy Disappoints in Stroke Trial
Forbes, Feb. 19 -- An experimental laser treatment of damaged brain areas failed to significantly reduce disability in stroke patients, researchers report. In the trial, the researchers at UCSD used the NeuroThera laser system within 24 hours of stroke onset, with the average time to treatment being 14.6 hours. The system uses low-energy infrared radiation that targets areas in and around stroke-damaged brain tissue. More

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Einstein Returns as a Robot
MyFox Los Angeles, Feb. 23 -- Scientist Albert Einstein is reborn - as a robot. Graduate students at UCSD have created a rubberized "smart robot" of Einstein. More

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Scientists Gain Insight
into Blood Cancer's Progression
U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 20 -- UCSD researchers say they've spotted a mechanism by which chronic myeloid leukemia progresses into a deadlier stage. The finding may improve patient outcomes, they said. More

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Advances for Alzheimer's, Outside the Lab
TIME, Feb. 23 -- There are few dementia therapies that the evidence can validate — currently only two types of drugs have received government approval in the U.S. to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, but both offer only limited benefits — and many caregivers, desperate to better the lives of their patients, resort to such low-tech, behavior-based solutions as singing. (Mentions research at UCSD) More

Nontoxic Algae, Not Oil Spill or Pesticides, Killed Seabirds in Monterey Bay in 2007
Scientific American, Feb. 20 -- . It wasn't the Cosco Busan oil spill in nearby San Francisco Bay or a controversial aerial pesticide spraying along the Central Coast that killed seabird in Monterey in 2007. It was harmless-looking foam from an ordinarily nontoxic algal bloom churned up by November waves, according to a study coming out in PLoS ONE on Monday. (Mentions research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Temptress Josephine
The New York Times, Feb. 23 -- From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1925, toward the end of the seminal Art Deco exhibition that led to a collective embrace of all things African, Josephine Baker was a muse among muses, inspiring the likes of Picasso, Alexander Calder, Gertrude Stein, Colette and Adolf Loos. (Quotes Bennetta Jules-Rosette, a professor of sociology and African studies at UCSD and the author of ‘‘Josephine Baker in Art and Life.’’) More

That Voodoo That Scientists Do
Seed Magazine, Feb. 23 -- Late last year, Ed Vul, a graduate student at MIT working with neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher and UCSD psychologist Hal Pashler, prereleased "Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience" on his website. The journal Perspectives in Psychological Science accepted the paper but will not formally publish it until May. More

UCSD Medical Center
Study May Halt Heartburn
News8, San Diego, Calif. Feb. 20 -- More than 20 million Americans suffer from chronic heartburn, and for most people medication and antacids only provide temporary relief. At UCSD, a free clinical trial hopes to solve your sour stomach. More

Little Hearts, Big Mission
NBC San Diego, Feb. 19 -- Two San Diego heart surgeons made a trip to Cambodia in 2008 to help children in that position. Dr. Michael Madani of UCSD Medical Center  and his mentor and fellow surgeon, Dr. Jolene Kriett, of Rady's Children’s Hospital, performed numerous surgeries in the the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia. More

Forget the Three R's;
This Contest was About the Seven Seas
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 22 -- More than a dozen high school teams participated in the La Jolla Surf Bowl at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to compete for a spot in the national contest in Washington, D.C., in April. More

Water Testing Left High and Dry
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 22 -- San Diego County disbanded all routine coastal water monitoring in October after losing state funding and has done little to revive the widely heralded program. (Mentions UCSD) More

Bailout Will Have Muted
Effect Locally, Analysts Say
North County Times, Feb. 21 -- Analysts said last week that North County homeowners can expect little relief from President Obama's $275 billion housing bailout, based on details the White House made public last week. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More
 
'Slumdog' Music Rocks
But Will It Have Lasting Impact?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 22 -- Will the extraordinary success of “Slumdog Millionaire,” whose vibrant soundtrack alone accounts for three of the hit film's 10 Oscar nominations, help make the typical American pop listener more receptive to Indian music in general and the country's Bollywood movie music specifically? The answer, several experts say, remains to be seen. (Quotes Kartik Seshardi, who has been the director of Indian classical music studies at UCSD since 1997) More

Time to Zoom in on the Universe
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 22 -- The telescope is just over 400 years old. In terms of human history, that's the blink of an eye. For most of humanity's existence, reality was mostly what we could see unaided. (Quotes Alison Coil, an assistant professor of astrophysics at UCSD who is involved in several deep-space telescopic surveys) More

Police Investigate UCSD Campus Sex Assault
10News, Feb. 23 -- Police are alerting the public of a sexual assault that occurred on the UCSD campus on February 3, 10News reported. More

Death-Penalty Debate
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 22 -- Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío and UCSD historian Ev Meade spoke Thursday about how many Mexicans today, just like in the 1930s, would like to bring back the death penalty. More

Burnham Scientists Share
in Landmark Flu-Fighting Effort
Voice of San Diego, Feb. 22 -- Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research are part of a team that has engineered human antibodies that attack influenza viruses -- including the deadly bird flu -- and could end up significantly reducing the threat of future flu pandemics. (Quotes Robert T. Schooley, head of UCSD’s infectious disease division) More

Recruiters Say They’re Hiring, But UCSD Engineering Students See It Differently
Xconomy, Feb. 23 -- I sensed more anxiety—or maybe it was less confidence—when I dropped in at UCSD Friday for an annual job fair organized by students at the Jacobs School of Engineering. More

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